Alerts Cars drive near the dangerous intersection of Flamingo Road and Pines Boulevard June 27, 2001 in Pembroke Pines, FL. According to State Farm Insurance Company 357 accidents have taken place at the site in the past two years. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images) Photo: Getty Images (Getty Images) Please enjoy a new word for those non-places where you have a high-speed road that still has tons of turn-offs, businesses, and red lights like a street. It’s a stroad, and it’s just as bad for drivers as it is for the safety of everyone else. Advertisement As an American, I am all too familiar with stroads. I just never had a good word for them until this video popped up on one of my feeds. It’s from a YouTube video uploaded by NotJustBikes, using the word from the group Strong Towns. Here’s the video, which spend the first half discussing what’s wrong with stroads: